SUSTAINABILITY TOUR
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Our innovative building integrates the best of smart technology with Marina Bay Sands® is Asia’s leading destination for business, leisure and sustainable design and practice. entertainment, delivering unparalleled experiences for our guests. Located in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, Marina Bay Sands’ iconic design Go on a simple self-guided tour to take a closer look at how and multi-dimensional offerings have transformed Singapore’s city skyline and its sustainability is embedded across the property. tourism landscape since it opened on 27 April 2010.
Marina Bay Sands features three cascading hotel towers with 2,561 luxury rooms Refer to the back cover of this and suites, state-of-the art convention and exhibition facilities, a theatre, world- brochure for the tour map. class entertainment and the best shopping and dining in the region. The three hotel towers are crowned by the spectacular Sands SkyPark®. Marina Bay Sands - Singapore Sustainability Tour MarinaBaySands.com
1 TIPPING 3 RISE HERB GARDEN WALL Our first stop is the Tipping Wall, facing the taxi The RISE Herb Garden is where you will stand at Tower 3. discover how over 70 edible plants are specially grown, nurtured, and harvested This wall was designed by for our guests to enjoy. RISE is also one Ned Kahn, a renowned of our most sustainable restaurants – why environmental artist not linger and enjoy some certified and sculptor. sustainable seafood? Collected rainwater runs down a wall covered in 7,000 hinged 800 to 1,200 grams of herbs, such as sorrel and metal channels, making them lemon balm, are harvested at the herb garden tilt left or right. every day.
The water spills down If you’re lucky, you might see a gardener harvesting to a catchment area below and some herbs! is recirculated upwards to pour down again.
3 4 Exit the restaurant, turn right and walk towards Hotel Tower 2. You will see a set of escalators on your left. After the escalators, there is a glass door leading to 1 2 While facing the Tipping Wall, walk a couple of steps towards your an outdoor garden. Take the lift in the left and look to the right, perpendicular to the Tipping Wall. garden to Level 6.
4 2 ROOFTOP GARDEN WIND ARBOR & HOTEL VIEWPOINT The Wind Arbor is the largest and most visible art Our green roof (a roof covered installation on our property, comprising 260,000 with plants) absorbs heat and aluminum metal flaps that reflect light and ripple provides insulation, reducing in the wind. the need for air conditioning and consequently lowering our This shimmering art piece was also created by Ned carbon emissions. Kahn, with the intention to create a sense of wonder and delight. Note how each hotel tower The sculpture shields the building from sunlight with is slanted – Hotel Tower 1, its stainless steel net, keeping the building’s in particular, has a slope of temperature low. 26 degrees.
See if you can spot more of the Wind Arbor scattered This is one of the best spots on our across our property! property to take a selfie with the three hotel towers. Don’t forget to hashtag #MarinaBaySands when posting online! 2 3 Go back inside the hotel and walk straight through the lobby towards Hotel Tower 1. Look out for RISE® Restaurant on your left, and access the Herb Garden through the glass doors at the 4 5 Now walk through the garden towards The Shoppes, and take the rear of the restaurant. escalator down towards Level 1 of The Shoppes. Marina Bay Sands - Singapore Sustainability Tour MarinaBaySands.com
5 SKYLIGHT AT 7 RAIN OCULUS THE SHOPPES The Rain Oculus, another piece by Ned Kahn, collects and recycles rainwater Architect Moshe Safdie wanted to maximise which is used to fill the canal at The natural lighting to bring the outdoors inside. Shoppes and for bathroom flushing at the He achieved this by designing a glass roof ArtScience Museum. over the mall that spans nearly 800,000ft2. Water flows at up to 6,000 gallons per minute High-tech photocell sensors detect the brightness through the Oculus, and it can hold up to of the sunlight and adjust interior lighting 200 tonnes of water. accordingly, ensuring that artificial lighting is kept to an optimal level. It creates a whirlpool motion on level 1, with the water falling one storey through a hole in the centre 90% of lighting on the property is energy efficient of the Oculus. and we’re working towards using 100% LED lighting by 2020. There is another Rain Oculus at The Shoppes – did you manage to see it just now?
7 8 Exit the museum. Turn right towards the main walkway, and make a left towards Gardens by 5 6 Walk straight and head out of the mall, the Bay. Walk under the Helix Bridge and keep going until you reach the domes of Gardens towards the Event Plaza. Turn right and by the Bay. enjoy a walk along the Promenade towards the iconic ArtScience Museum™. 8 GARDENS Immerse yourself in Gardens by the Bay, filled with plants seldom seen in this part 6 BY THE BAY THE of the world, ranging from species in cool, Marina Bay Sands, as well as the temperate climates to tropical forests MARINA cluster of buildings that you see and habitats. around the bay, are all built on BAY reclaimed land. The iconic Supertrees are designed with large canopies that provide shade in the day and Ships used to be docked for passengers come alive with an exhilarating display of light to be transferred to small boats, which and sound at night. then ferried them to Johnston’s Pier (replaced by Clifford Pier in 1933). The two massive glass conservatories use energy-efficient solutions for cooling and house a Did you know that none of Singapore’s diverse collection of unique plants that are of high rivers are ‘rivers’ anymore? This body of conservation value. water is one of Singapore’s 17 reservoirs. Rainwater collected in these reservoirs is If you’re lucky, you might catch a glimpse of the piped to water-treatment plants where it smooth coated otters that live in the waterways is processed into potable water. alongside the park – that’s how clean the water is.
8 If you wish to return to Marina Bay Sands, follow the directions towards Bayfront MRT Station or Garden Bay Bridge.
6 7 Walk to the ArtScience Museum and view the Rain Oculus from WE HOPE YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS TOUR AND LEARNT A LITTLE Level 1 or Basement 2 of the museum. MORE ABOUT MARINA BAY SANDS’ SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS! START YOUR SELF-GUIDED TOUR AT HOTEL LOBBY TOWER 3
Use the map below and follow the numbered route
ARTSCIENCE LOUIS MUSEUM
FLYER & YOUTH VUITTON OLYMPIC PARK SINGAPORE
EVENT PLAZA PROMENADE PROMENADE RAIN OCULUS THE SHOPPES THE SHOPPES DIGITAL THE HELIX BRIDGE LIGHT CANVAS®
BAYFRONT LINK SANDS EXPO® AND SANDS CASINO CONVENTION CENTRE THEATRE
BY THE BAYGARDENS UNDERPASS
UNDERPASS
BRIDGE
LIONS ENTRANCE TO SANDS SKYPARK
BAYFRONT AVENUE TOWERWER SHEARES LINK 3 TOWER TOWARDS CHANGI AIRPORT UNDERPASS TO TOWER TOWER 2 GARDENS BY THE BAY VIA TOWER1 BAYFRONT MRT STATION SHEARES AVE. GARDEN BAY BRIDGE
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